Album Review: Cosplay by Sorry

The music industry is full of people who confuse brashness for talent and volume for vision. Big mouths do not necessarily produce big ideas. UK band Sorry walk a quieter, more reflective path, lurking at the edges, taking stock, and turning those observations into songs that carry far more emotional depth than the stylized "rock n roll as viewed through a focus group" fakeness of certain artists.

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What they lack in quantity, they make up for in a sonic prolificness, an unwillingness to be tied down to any one genre, or really any multi-hyphenate collection thereof. On their first two records for Domino, they race through grungey rock, glitchy trip-hop, twee pop, theatrical skeleton music, and plenty more besides. With Cosplay, they show no signs of settling down, though this project has somewhat of a throughline.

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Across their two previous albums, Sorry have leaned into an intricately dense and claustrophobic sound that largely avoids comparison. It's a feat that has seen them reach across the musical spectrum in terms of festival appearances and support slots, the most prominent of which - joining Fontaines DC for a double-header of shows - displaying just how broadly the term 'indie' can stretch. Third album 'COSPLAY', then, doubles down in its broader take on Sorry's distinctive style, delivering something altogether more unsettling and eerie - and inarguably beautiful.

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With their third studio album ‘COSPLAY ', Sorry unleash their deepest and darkest inhibitions. The record exists in a world where identity is vague; where you can be dead or alive, real or imagined, someone else entirely, or no one at all. "We died when we started writing this album," say the band. The world of COSPLAY is a maze; just when you think you've cracked it, you find another turn, another wrong corner, another mask.

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